Newcastle University

Traffic and Environment Management for Sustainability

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This course introduces the concept of effective traffic and environment management for sustainability. The scale of local and global air pollution problems and related policies and reports will be discussed, as will the concept of the nested approach to modelling traffic, emission and air quality at nano, micro, meso and macro scales. The role of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in delivering sustainability will be discussed, keeping environmental, economic and health objectives in mind. The use of traffic micro-simulation, emission and dispersion models to estimate air pollution in response to strategic and tactical initiatives will be demonstrated.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, delegates will be able to:

• use micro-simulation traffic models;
• assess environmental impacts of road traffic under various policy options;
• estimate air pollution concentrations as a function of emission, meteorology, topography and the built environment from road traffic;
• disseminate emission and air quality results to a wider audience.

The course will provide delegates with:

• basic understanding of the concepts of traffic and environment management for sustainability;
• knowledge of the scale of local and global air pollution problems;
• knowledge of policies and reports which have a strong bearing on local and global air pollution and sustainability issues;
• insight into the concept of the nested approach to modelling traffic, emission and air quality at micro and macro scales;
• knowledge of the role of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in delivering sustainability keeping environmental, economic and health objectives in mind;
• knowledge of analysing and presenting outputs of air quality models to a wide audience.

Course Outline

• Scale of local and global air pollution problems;
• Sustainability balancing traffic, economic, environmental and health objectives;
• Air quality and noise policies, standards and objectives (US, EU and UK);
• Key policies and reports with a strong bearing on local and global air pollution;
• Lessons from Review and Assessment and Updating and Screening Assessment processes;
• Traffic and environment monitoring;
• Introduction to traffic modelling;
• Emission modelling for air quality and noise management;
• Dispersion modelling for air quality management;
• Nesting of traffic, emission and air quality models;
• Noise attenuation;
• Role of ITS in delivering sustainability;
• Local authority perspective in air quality management (lecture by a guest speaker from LA);
• Linking land use development with transport planning and assessment.

Presenters

School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences

• Dr Anil Namdeo (Course Leader)
• Prof Margaret Bell
• Dr Fabio Galatioto
• Mr Glyn Rhys-Tyler

Industry Professionals

• To be confirmed

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